Chapter 425 Trade City
The sun is clear after the snow in the early morning.
When Luoyang people came together, they found that some changes seemed to have occurred in the entire Luoyang. There were new notices posted in the places where the notices were posted before. The new notices were posted on the same place as Wang Shichong and Li Mi before were posted, and they were also asked to read and explain to everyone loudly.
The only difference is that this notice is much larger than usual and has a different color.
Wang Shichong used black and white characters, Li Mi also used black and white characters, but the notice was bloody red.
This represents a certain meaning.
The Eastern Capital City should not be the Luoyang of Wang Shichong and Li Mi, but has changed its new owner. Although the middle-aged people in Luoyang still don’t know what happened, even the stupidest person knows who the latest owner will be.
Who else would there be a magical young man who could even wipe out Li Mi's Wagang Army?
The notice had an extremely majestic golden dragon on the red paper. This notice did not look like it was written in a painting, but it looked like it was rubbing. There were also golden seal scripts in the middle of the notice, which looked very pleasing to the eye, but unfortunately everyone was shaking their heads and proclaiming them. In fact, no one could understand it in his heart.
Fortunately, there were people who read the chant and explained that the anxious people gradually understood the content of this huge notice.
Although the notice was not written, the people who explained it always like to introduce it first and talk about the past of the Great Zheng Dynasty.
Before he had time to ascend the throne and declare to the world, Emperor Zheng, King Shichong of Dazheng, asked his son Wang Xuanying to collude with the Ming Dynasty's sect to kill his father and finally aroused the anger of the generals and fled to the city of Luoyang without a trace and was taken over by the Chinese army. No one asked to explain who the Chinese army was because even a blind man could see it. Now the side of the whistle was no longer the imperial city guards but soldiers who were vaguely killed on the battlefield.
These soldiers who stood up like guns and had no expression in the morning breeze were naturally subordinates of the magical military advisor. Only those teams that could defeat the Wagang Army could such powerful and serious soldiers be able to be present.
No one in Luoyang felt that Wang Shichong died of death. The only strange thing was that he died at the hands of his eldest son.
Everyone expressed their feelings for the dead Wang Shichong for about a second, and the content of the notice attracted the content.
The top of the notice states that Luoyang City will no longer be heavily guarded for the future for the trade city and will no longer take the initiative to fight. The regular army is less than 10,000 people. Before, all unqualified soldiers or disabled soldiers turned to military industry and no longer served in military service to carry out wars, becoming a special profession, but they also enjoy military rewards and salaries in the Luoyang army.
The Luoyang City Lord is Wang Xuanshu, the second son of Wang Shichong, the Luoyang Guardian is Yang Gongqing.
Everyone was puzzled by Wang Xuanshu's decision to become the lord of Luoyang City rather than the young man who defeated the Wagang Army, but he guessed in his heart. He did not dare to say too much, but he was afraid that he would make mistakes.
There are nine rights and obligations that Luoyang people enjoy after becoming a trading city in the eastern capital Luoyang, and even nine punishments.
The first article about rights is that Luoyang people have the right to trade freedom. This makes all Luoyang people fall into their eyes and feel incredible. There is still a place in the world that is not allowed to do business?
This explanation explains that freedom of trade means that everything can be bought and sold. This vague sentence made all the smart Luoyang people fall to the ground. No one can understand the meaning of this sentence. However, when the intent people ask the intent people, they all vaguely answered that the greatest scale of trade freedom must be approved by the Chinese army. However, without saying what the maximum scale is, the intent people's eyes are bright.
There are nine rights, one is freedom of trade; the second is freedom of settlement and freedom of entry and exit; the third is to ensure respect for living customs and status. The notice uses a lot of words and clear provisions. No matter what kind of local people, no matter what customs and customs, no matter whether they are farmers, industry, businessmen, scholars, scholars, soldiers, etc., must respect each other within the control of the Chinese army. Those who reverse orders shall be shown the public at the least, whipped at the worst, expelled from the country or even beheaded.
The most happy businessmen who heard this were the peasant and working people who were dissatisfied with the majority of Confucian scholars and officials.
For businessmen who explicitly stipulate that no soldiers, officers or others are allowed to use other excuses other than military orders to make way for others to make way in the city, and the low status feels that the weather is really sunny today.
No matter how many rights are, it will not make people dislike it, especially on the ninth point, anyone has the right to enter an official position.
This makes people unable to believe that although they know that there must be many meanings in it, they no longer change the scale established by Emperor Wen of Sui through the Confucian scholarship and the scale established before Emperor Wen of Sui was aroused by many merchants. People from the two levels of workers and peasants had no objection because they felt that it would be strange if they could enter the officialdom and would not do it even if they could become officials.
The first point is that people in Luoyang have the obligation to serve in the military. And it is not just a simple sentence. It clearly stipulates that all descendants of Luoyang, both men and women, must undergo a period of military training after enjoying the right to study. Women are more symbolically set to three months while men and men are up to three years, but can be divided into 15 years.
Because the interpreter explained that these young people are not regular troops and do not have to participate in the war, but only train their bodies. After the training, there are excellent people who can work in the city. Ordinary people can also choose certain types of jobs that the Chinese army can raise.
This is the most supported by the relatively poor and poor people in the two levels of workers and peasants. They think that training for a few years and then finding a stable income is also a good choice. Anyway, there is no need to fight.
The second point of obligation is taxation.
The notice clearly stipulates that all Luoyang people have the obligation to pay taxes.
Surprisingly, this tax is beyond expectations. The second obligation stipulates that any trade is unified with a single tax. It means that one of the 100-year-old taxes is drawn as a tax. This is a difference compared to the 15-year-old tax before Wang Shichong or the 20-year-old taxes in the Sui Dynasty. This tax almost made merchants cry.
People from both workers and peasants also cheered because not only one hundred taxes, but more importantly, they do not need to pay any taxes when buying things.
In other words, all taxes are actually charged only half of the taxes from the seller.
Of course, although the Hundred-Yi Tax is light enough, some people are dissatisfied. These people are casino owners or brothel owners, because they are all profitable industries. Even Hundred-Yi Tax will be enough to make them feel bad. They still feel that someone comes to collect taxes and stuffs a bag of gold and silver to fight. It is the most ideal thing.
There are nine obligations, just like rights, but there are almost no one in other places that conflict or opposes them except military service taxes.
Rights and obligations are followed by punishment.
The rights and obligations made Luoyang people happy, except for a very small number of people dissatisfied, most people were still excited to see it. However, when they heard the punishment below, all Luoyang people couldn't help but take a breath.
Because this punishment is not ordinary and severe, but rather severe, and makes people feel cold.
The first article of the new punishment of Luoyang in the trade city is that any woman who is forced to commit suicide and rebellion and inhumanity will not be punished. The first two points are easy to understand. The third explanation of the inhumanity is that many people have sweated down because they are unfilial to their parents and betray their friends for business and bullying others. They are actually considered inhumanity.
In other words, once the Chinese army determines that an unfilial son or a profiteer reaches the point of inhumanity, they can kill him without guilt and show him publicly. This makes many people feel excited.
The second article is that if the person injured or injured without reason, the limbs will be cut off or the light will be compensated or the fingers will be cut.
This article made many people in the gangs of Jianghu and Lakes sweat. This is too severe, right? The interpreter explained that there will be some places in Luoyang City that are specifically used to resolve disputes or vendettas. If mediation cannot be made, you can apply for a battle. Even a life and death will be decided. Not only can you be treated and buryed after injury, but you can also get a certain share of the entry fee for all visitors.
Revenge can still make money. This is simply ridiculous but it is not very resistant. Because it doesn't work on the surface, but it actually sounds pretty good. At least if two people go there to fight, not only will someone treat it later, but they will also receive money. It is also a good choice, especially if you feel good about your skills.
The new punishment of Luoyang, the eastern capital known as the trading city, is simply strange. One of them is fined or whipped in the street and paraded in the street.
The merchants think that the fine is barely acceptable; the whipping is mostly the workers and peasants class; but no one can accept it, whether it is Confucian businessmen or workers and peasants, parades and shows up. When the interpreter opens the thick pages in his hand, reminds him that when a child over six years old in his family violates this regulation, parents and elders in the family will be punished the same punishment.
But no one dares to do anything stupid that cannot be compared with himself.
Because some rebellious guys spit out thick phlegm on the spot to protest, they immediately caught the soldiers next to him and whipped them hard. Those with a little more powerful martial arts could not run out of three streets, so the soldiers were tied up and hung upside down until most people passed by the bridge piers. If the people who had hit the slander of the soldiers who had slandered the soldiers would even slash and hang their heads high on the spot.
Only then did everyone realize that the things on this notice were not a joke.
Although the punishment is extremely severe, for most people, it is nothing. Just manage their bad habits or children in their families. It's not a matter of falling.
Article 9 of the penalty. Anyone who creates or counterfeits new trade currency will be punished again.
This made Luoyang people have no objection to the first time, except for the fact that it is said that they are worried about whether the currency of the new bank is equivalent to the gold and silver in their hands. Because they saw that there was paper in the currency of the new bank of the Chinese army.
These extremely strange and bright papers represent different values. It is said that the highest amount reaches ten thousand yuan. But these papers do not make people worry too much because they do not pass within Luoyang immediately. In other words, Luoyang merchants want to exchange these exquisite and beautiful banknotes that make people love are not qualified.
They only travel within the army and do not circulate outside.
The circulating outside is a hard body composed of three types of copper coins, silver coins, gold coins. The copper coins are different from ordinary copper coins, but they are not light in weight, and there are no longer square holes in the middle but round holes. There are exquisite patterns on the back, a bunch of wheat ears and a bunch of rice tails around the front, and the four seal characters of Chinese copper coins.
The silver dollar is similar to copper coins, and it is even more exquisite and thick, without any holes in the middle.
The pattern on the back is a blooming peony flower, and the front is an old man who no one knows. It is said that he is the world's best skillful Lu Miaozi who made these coins.
The gold coins are the same as silver dollars, but the pattern on the back is a lotus. There are many exquisite patterns on the edge of the golden lotus. The front is the side image of Lu Miaozi. Everyone thought that the young man would use his image to spread it to the world, but it did not make everyone puzzled.
Chapter completed!